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23rd June 1960: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Enovid as the first combined oral contraceptive pill in the world

23rd June 2021
Tagged as: America, Birth Control, Contraception, Drugs, Health, Medicine, Puerto Rico, Science, United States, USA

400,000 women saw their doctors to obtain Enovid contraceptive prescriptions in the first year.

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28th September 1928: Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

28th September 2019
Tagged as: Discovery, Disease, Drugs, Health, Medicine, Science

On the 28^th September 1928, the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming laid for the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine when he discovered the world’s first antibiotic.

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22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison

22nd July 2019
Tagged as: cocaine, Columbia, Drugs, Escape, Pablo Escobar, Prison, Smuggling, USA

Referred to mockingly as ‘Hotel Escobar’, the prison was staffed by guards chosen by the drugs lord himself.

Tag: Drugs

23rd June 1960: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Enovid as the first combined oral contraceptive pill in the world

28th September 1928: Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

23rd May 1915: Italy enters the First World War on the side of the Triple Entente and declares war on Austria-Hungary

22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman

20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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